sign
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, sign sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2gins, sing
- One letter away
- 1sigh
What it means
- adjectiveused of the language of the deaf
- nouna perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- nouna public display of a message
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ay1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
121 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- airline
- align
- alkaline
- assign
- baseline
- benign
- borderline
- bovine
- brine
- canine
- coastline
- confine
- consign
- deadline
- decline
- define
- design
- dine
- divine
- enshrine
- entwine
- equine
- feline
- fine
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: gins, sing.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.